White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp stands behind Kelly Sadler

[RandySF]

At yesterday’s meeting of the White House communications team — in the wake of a leak from the prior meeting of a callous remark about John McCain’s brain cancer — a visibly upset and furious Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the group: “I am sure this conversation is going to leak, too. And that’s just disgusting,” according to a source in the room.

Sanders' prediction came true. What follows below is a leak from that very intense meeting yesterday, according to five sources in the room. The broad outlines of this meeting were first reported by ABC News.

Why this matters: The White House communications and press team has been beset by leaks. This last one appears to have crossed a line, and several people in the room on Friday told me they now walk into meetings knowing they can’t trust their own colleagues. In big meetings, they feel inclined, now, to keep their mouths shut.

At one point, per a source in the room, White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp interjected with a word of support for Sadler:

"You can put this on the record...I stand with Kelly Sadler."


https://www.axios.com/white-house-sarah-sanders-john-mccain-kelly-sadler-8a4e33f7-c2bd-4cc6-aebd-57594d7ab4f4.html

[Achilleaze]

1. "I stand with the other republicans pissing on a dying American veteran" - Schlapp

republicans are delivering a disrespectful Schlapp in the face to an honorable veteran, POW, and US Senator in their own freaking degenerate KGOP-infested republican party.

In so doing, the republicans are pissing on every veteran and every active duty person in our military, and instead pledging allegience to their ignoble Comrade Casino, a five-time draft-dodging hustler. Sick.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Did anyone even think about mentioning how cruel that comment was to Sadler?

Or were they more concerned that it might get out of the room?

So, now, you have two on record approving of the crude statement. I suppose that in that atmosphere, anything goes...as long as you aren't caught (and, I do mean anything)!

Oh, and btw, does Sanders ever answer any questions beyond telling them who to go to for the answer? What excerpts I see, she is directing them to someone else, or saying "we" aren't going to discuss that..."we" feel this has been taken care of, etc.l I never hear her give a decent reply. How does the press corps do their jobs? Run all over hell asking someone beyond the Press Secretary, or whatever her title is? She's a waste of time.